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When psychology meets psychic - what do you get? p.1

God is doing a new thing according to Doug Addison and it is
through him. Addsion claims
that he is “one of the forerunners for Prophetic Evangelism. “I went all
around the world training people to use dream interpretation and prophecy as a
means of sharing God’s love.”

Bio - DOUG ADDISON is the founder of InLight Connection in Santa Maria, California and is the
author of the book Prophecy, Dreams, and Evangelism. He travels worldwide
helping people transform their lives and discover their purpose. Doug is a
stand-up comedian and his training seminars include hearing God, understanding
dreams and visions, and experiencing the supernatural. Doug also trains and
leads dream teams and prophetic/power evangelism outreaches.

He is called a life coach, a dream interpreter and travels speaking and does Webinars.
He says of himself “he is an
expert in hearing God,” (in fact he hears an audible voice).
He claims to have interpreted 25,000 dreams and now claims to interpret tattoos
(thousands), and trains others to do it.

He says there are billion people on earth that have tattoos and
that God is speaking to people all the time, these are hidden messages on a
persons personality traits.

That tattoos have symbolism like in
the parables Jesus taught. He says
“Quite often there are hidden prophetic messages behind tattoos and piercings!”
Addison has been, ‘prophesying over tattoos since 2004.” He has become
known as the tattoo prophet (for now).

He also claims to use the Holy Spirit to guide people to
understand the prophetic in a tattoo (he would have to spend years on Todd
Bentley). By“explaining the
prophetic symbolism and location of people’s tattoos and piercings. When someone
tells you the story behind a tattoo they are opening up their life to you and it
often reveals revelation about their destiny that they did not know was there.”

And he states "women
are drawn to the prophetic and dream interpretation" more than
men.

To validate this he states “even Jesus comes back with a tat
in Revelation 19:16 (King of Kings and Lord of Lords is written His thigh).”

He teaches there is significance in the placement of the tattoo
on the body. So he will train you to do this as well, (he says once you do it
you will get hooked). The complete online training is $79.00
http://vimeo.com/44835586

www.propheticevangelism.comand offers a free jump-start course. Offering his Prophetic
Evangelism at a discounted price
until 3/31/12, which is still there.

How anyone can say this with a straight face is beyond me, but
even more disturbing is that the recipients of this teaching actually believe
this is from God as a gift.

Maybe he can interpret people’s
clothes or types of glasses they wear, or what car or house they rent or buy, or
if they eat meat or are vegetarian (hopefully I have not given him ideas for a
new enterprise). The possibilities are endless for these spiritual
entrepreneurs. This appears to have more to do with psychology than anything
else.

Whenever someone touts themselves as an expert in something of
this caliber we must take pause. The Bible says every
believer is able to have God speak to them by His word and His Holy Spirit,
but if what one hears does not coincide with the word written, than it cannot be
God speaking. There are other spiritual beings that speak in much the same
manner that Addison describes. One thing you can be assured not to get from
Addison, sound expository teaching from the Bible.
Addison says he never went to bible college (but states he is
not against it), yet his books are being used in some colleges.

“One of the
major ways that God speaks to
me is
through things that happen in my life. These events are often like a prophetic
act or they are symbolic of what God is saying and doing on a larger scale.”
He speaks on what he notices in his life and uses it for his prophetic
explanations, admitting the major way is not by His word.
He says, we can hear the voice of God more accurately and consistently -- by his
inside tips; after all he is a prophet.

Addison claims our evangelism went flat in the 70’s
and 80’s, that he is
the example of new ways of evangelism today. Addison claims what he is doing is
new but not really, it’s
what Jesus did. He sends people out (sets up a booth) to practice encouragement,
giving prophetic words (to unbelievers) rather than the gospel. Is that what we
are to do, encourage unbelievers! Tells people to trust the still small voice
(where is that stated in the New Testament). Can all can hear from God without
taking care of the sin factor through Jesus first?

I propose that he is the example of new ways evangelism does not
work today.
He tells people it’s so easy to do ministry (the Bible calls it
labor). He has innumerable stories about his successes. One may be impressed by
his stories but anyone who is reaching out to a rebellious confused generation knows it
is NOT easy and is filled with disappointments along with its victories.

In one speaking engagement he speaks of the first wave of revival in
1906, the second in 1950, then of Randy Clark getting the anointing and bring it
back (i.e. Toronto). So it’s questionable whether he understands what the true
anointing is. If one refers 1994 revival of laughter and Toronto they need
serious questioning. This was one of the worst spiritual attacks on the church.

A prophecy by Carol Arnott at the Toronto Airport Vineyard “…
the methods that you have been
using in the past, you are to throw them away because I am giving you My sword
now and the old ways of doing things will not do. The old methods will not be
acceptable to Me anymore because I am doing a new thing”
(January 20, 1997). Apparently Addison is on board with this.

Addison then refers to 1983, the 3rd wave and about
John Wimber and his MC5 class at Fuller college. He also speaks favorably of the Healing rooms as he speaks
there.

After 2005 and his disappointment of there being an expected
revival AND NONE CAME, he describes a dream with an Arial view of the new move
of God. He teaches that God said, he made it a wilderness because the people
were not ready for the last move of God.

The concept of a wilderness is for individuals God calls, such
as Moses, not for a worldwide church. It is to PREPARE them for a mission.
Speaking of the wilderness, he says Paul ran away after being confronted
by the light.

Not exactly what happened according to Paul’s
own word’s “nor did I
go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia,
and returned again to Damascus” (Gal. 1:17-18)

He states that Oprah has a gift from God. Explains that she
wanted to be a preacher and was wounded by the church (actually she was turned
off by Jesus being the only way). How does one who denies Jesus have a gift from
God? According to the

“Elijah List” whom he is featured on, even
psychics gifts are from God.

Addison is quite the comedian: He makes jokes on baptism such as
unusual ways to baptize, bungi jumping or throwing balls and dunkin' people.
While this may get a laugh, there is a coarseness. Truth becomes what he wants it
to be as he offers his new way that he believes God specifically gave him.
He claims when God does something new those closest don’t
recognize it (like Mary and the Disciples not recognizing Jesus in his
resurrected body; a very different thing)

It is your destiny

He teaches that Christians do not know their own destiny; mixes
destiny with calling. "change your
belief, change your destiny." See Eph.2:10

He gives words of destiny to the unsaved (citing the Burning man
festival) speaks of people laid out in God’s
presence (presumably both saved an unsaved). He believes
God has given him in his destiny (he discovered later in life) the things he was
created to do. But his examples given contradict the scripture.

Ps 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you
the desires of your heart.

He uses Jer. 29:11 as a promise for our collective destiny
when it is really about the nation Israel V.11-13 “For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to
give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me,
and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for
Me with all your heart.”

The Lord is speaking to the nation Israel and their captivity in
Babylon that will last 70 years, stating “I will visit you and perform My good
word toward you, and cause you to return to this place." And prior before this
the Lord Ironically speaks V.8-9 “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive
you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy
falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD."

Certainly if he wants to find application it is here.

Some of things you will learn is How negative designs can have positive meanings;
How to develop metaphoric thinking. He has activation exercises (sounds like
Bill Hamon and the NAR). He refers to the 7 Mountains of Society, as in the NAR
(7 Mountains of Culture)
Lance Wallnau – 7
world kingdoms [conversation of Loren Cunningham of YWAM and Bill Bright of
Campus crusade for Christ] “and he who can take those kingdoms can take the
harvest of nations.”

Problem is that we don’t
take anything, we give, the gospel: then people are changed.

Addison is capable to use the Bible to form what he wants it to
say, especially when it is squeezed into his own world of visions and
prophecies. Steve Shultz of the Elijah list says of Addison ‘There is most definitely a shift happening in
both the spiritual and natural realms. God is shifting people into new positions
and aligning relationships together to make a much bigger impact for the
Kingdom. As usual, Doug Addison shares some key revelation in his latest word
for October.”Addison says “God
is moving in surprisingly powerful new ways right now and we need to have
spiritual eyesight to recognize that He may come differently than we expect.”

No doubt this would be a self endorsement for his
tattoo interpretation business
(it’s
not a Bible ministry). Yes we need spiritual eyesight as spoken to the Laodicean
church. This where the church is at; one false prophet promotes another
and they get speaking engagements at the churches that they have in their
pockets.

Real prophetic evangelism is using the bibles prophecy to show
that God does keep His word and that it is accurate and true, drawing from world
events that line up with the word. It has nothing to do with the worldly concept
of tattoos and piercings., readings for individuals personality preferences.

The Latter Rain teaching is mostly found among the false
prophets in some portion or fullness.

We Are Sitting on an Evangelistic Gold Mine: A Call to Prophetic
Evangelism: Doug Addison

Have you noticed nowadays that people everywhere are saying that
they are spiritual but not religious? ….you will find that the majority of them
want a touch from God, but they have not been able to identify with traditional
Christian churches.

Acts 2:17-18 says that in the last days God will pour out His
Spirit in a greater measure, and prophecy, dreams and visions will become
more prevalent. With the sudden increase of interest in spirituality one can
not help noticing that these verses are now being fulfilled. As God pours
out His Spirit on people, they often become aware of their emptiness and they
are motivated to search for deeper spiritual meaning in life.

One of the ways God is drawing people today is through dreams.
Although not all dreams are from God, quite often God will give a person a dream
that will cause them to search for the meaning. Unfortunately, many Christians
have stopped valuing dreams and their relevancy to daily life. As a result,
people who have dreams from God are often forced to get them interpreted through
the New Age or psychoanalytic methods that cannot accurately interpret a dream
from the Holy Spirit.” (underline and bold mine)

Consider what we have heard from Addison, would this not be good
advice for himself?

What he is describing are people searching for contact, to have
an experience. The fact that Acts 2:17-18 is to take place in the
Tribulation period does not matter to Latter rain adherents. Israel experienced
the signs and wonders in the wilderness. And we all know how well that worked
out for them … only two from the first generation entered into the Promised
Land, they had faith.

That is what God wants from us to have a
relevant life.

Heb. 4:2 “but the word preached did not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in them that heard it.” Num. 26:65 “For the LORD had said of
them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of
them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.” Deut 1:35 God
called them “this evil generation.” Num 14:24 But my servant Caleb, because
he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring
into the land where into he went; and his seed shall possess it.”

The spirit was God’s spirit, He believed what God said
and did not need miracles or signs to believe. Dreams are not given to draw
unbelievers. why would unbelievers not seek out an interpretation from the New Age
or psychoanalytic methods. Its not because we stopped interpreting dreams,
this is a false argument, an excuse to promote his new methods.

Why did Jeremiah state Jer. 29:8: “Do
not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor
listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.”

Dream interpretation made easy

Addison says: In Genesis 40:6-8 Joseph encounters two men who
appear to be depressed. They tell him (verse 8), “We both had dreams, but there
is no one to interpret them.” People who have destiny dreams from God can often
feel empty and adrift until they find the meaning of the night visions that seem
to haunt them. Joseph recognized that interpretations to dreams come from God
and that God’s people can give true interpretations to their dreams.

An exciting revelation for the Church today is that no one can
interpret a dream from God except a Spirit-filled Christian. The Apostle Paul
makes this clear in 1 Corinthians 2:14. “The man without the Spirit does not
accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

So if God is giving people dreams and the only ones who
can accurately interpret those dreams are Spirit-filled Christians, it appears
that the Church is sitting on an evangelistic gold mine. Prophecy and biblically
based dream interpretation may currently be the most culturally relevant means
of sharing God’s love to those people outside the church.”

Again if we go to the Bible and listen to God's teaching we have a
different teaching than Addison. Daniel said I can’t
interpret dreams - God can, so how can a man teach another man to do this? The
practice of using a method or a book to identify and analyze symbols and events
in our dream for guidance in our life is either Jungian psychology or liken to
divination. There is nothing taught in Scripture about a method for
interpretation.

Genesis 40:8 says that interpretations of dreams belong to God,
the one who gave it. Dan. 1:17 “…and Daniel had understanding in all
visions and dreams.” This was not a common ability for everyone as
Addison states. Daniel attributed this ability to God (vv.21-23), it was not
something he possessed that could be used indiscriminately - he could not turn
it on. The people in Scripture that interpret dreams are Joseph
and Daniel, and made it plain that God revealed the interpretation.

Joseph and Daniel did not go around and interpret everyone’s
else’s dream’s. God gave them the specifics when it involved the people of
Israel or those God were to use. This frivolous activity of dream interpretation
comes from none other than John Paul Jackson who was part of the Kansas City
prophets (Mike Bickel, Bob Jones, Rick Joyner etc.)

In fact Addison states: “In 1992 I was at a conference in
which the presence of God came and the speaker, John Paul Jackson, instructed us
to write down three visions we were about to have. He told us that these visions
will surely come to pass in our lives. I was amazed at the clarity of the
visions that came to me about my own life. In the years following, all three
have come to pass. One of them was about introducing new technology into the
Church that will help bring revival. Within a year of having the first vision, I
launched a new career in the area of high technology. Ten years later I joined
the staff of John Paul’s ministry and began development of a dream
interpretation training website, which was later developed by someone else into
a very effective internet training website

.” (The
Internet: The Next Generation’s RevivalDoug
Addison)

Everyone had 3 visions! We have been sitting on an evangelistic gold
mine- Yes, its called the gospel message and it is the only thing that works.

Where is this new technology that brought revival when he said
it revival did not come? He joined with John Paul who has popularized dream
interpretation. Addison is active in numerological interpretation as well.

Numerology aka Chuck Pierce.

Addison says, At 5:55 A.M. on August 1st an angel of grace woke me up by
its very presence, standing in my room. The angel spoke these words:
"It's time to cross over." I
knew that this messenger from God was talking about crossing over to a new
spiritual time where things that God has promised are going to begin to take
place at an accelerated pace with a greater amount of God's provision.

But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of
is a land of mountains and valley that drinks rain from Heaven. Deuteronomy
11:11 NIV

So he is visited by angels with new revelation. I agree that
certain numbers have significance but where does the
Bible teach the number 5 is grace?

Acceleration is a constant theme we hear from these so called
prophets, yes the end times is accelerating and the Bible says there will be a
group of false prophets that will congregate together to deceive the elect
(Mt.24:24). are you one of them?

The new age movement in the church is also accelerating and the
uncanny thing about all this is that the promoters of this unbiblical
spirituality do not know how they are being used or whom is using them; and the
hearers do not as well. From someone who has been there, I can tell you that
this has a false spirit written all over it, from beginning to end.

This is the new crop of prophets. They force the bible into the
new mold of a mystic Kabbalistic interpretation. Another example:

Feb. 3 2013, Addison had his Daily Prophetic Word, “A
Prophetic Sign from God will be seen around the world.” During the third quarter
of the Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers,
half the lights went out for thirty-four minutes in the New Orleans Superdome.
This was the sign from God seen around the world.

He uses the numbers involved in this manner: when the lights
went out, the score of the game was 28-6. Twenty-eight plus six equals
34.
The lights were out for 34
minutes. The power outage sign happened in the third quarter (3/4). The
winning team’s score was 34.

However, At 5:32 the power went out for exactly 33:55, which is
rounded off to 34:00 minutes, just a little detail that does not matter since
being exact does not matter.

Addison goes on “God spoke to me in more detail about the
prophetic significance of the repeated number 34 and the fact that only half the
lights went out. First of all, God’s heart right now is for people to encounter
His love, power, and acceptance.” He then speaks that our problem we are
having with reaching people is that Christians have been judging these people
harshly for their behavior (I recall John the baptizer doing the same.)

The significance of the sign at the Super Bowl
“We are the light of the world (see Matthew 5:14). Half the lights went out
because God wants us to notice that we operating at half power. Many Christians
keep thinking that God is judging our nation and the world. Yet God is actually
holding the Church accountable right now for not extending love to those in
need. Love is powerful!

God spoke to me that pride and prejudice have blinded many
Christians. At least half as only half the lights went out.

The significance of 34: “During a time of prayer last week, I
had an encounter with bright flashes of angelic light and the Holy Spirit spoke
to me about the details of the number 34. Ezekiel 34 makes a prophetic
comparison: people who need God and sheep. It goes on to say that shepherds who
do not have God’s heart of love are allowing the enemy to ravish the sheep. God
spoke to me that this prophetic application of Ezekiel 34 is about Christians
who have not had God’s heart for people in need and have driven them away. This
chapter in Ezekiel is widely used against leaders, but God isn’t talking about
Christian pastors or leaders in this context, just regular, everyday
Christians.”

How does Ezekiel 34 start off V.2-3 Son of man, prophesy
against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?Ye eat the fat, and ye
clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

Could Ezek 34 be applied to Doug? I’m
just saying…

Let’s
be accurate… Led by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the 49ers scored 17 points in
the span of 4 minutes, 10 seconds in the third quarter. There was 13:22 left in the third
quarter when the lights went out and 15:00 minutes in the 4th quarter
which equals 28:22. Can we find a meaning for this, maybe we can cross reference
a scripture for this and other football games. Ravens edged out a
34-31 victory of 3 points if we add them together which equals 65, that’s
the age of retirement … just saying.

This is supposed to be a sign from God seen around the world?
Really, is this how God gave signs to have people believe? Did any Christian
pick up on this without prophet Addison explaining it all? You might as well
read the stars and find biblical stories in them, but we already do that. Maybe
these prophets can do some leap frog numbering with the meteor that hit Russia
and the asteroid that passed by 17,000 miles from Earth. There’s
always shapes clouds make and we can read our alphabet soup in the
morning for our daily devotional if we don’t
get a message from the TV!

James Ryle, of the Toronto Vineyard in 1990 had a "prophecy" as
a series of dreams that a new type music would rival that of the Beatles. He
explained his dream: The Lord spoke to me and said, 'What you saw In the Beatles - the gifting and
that sound they had - was from me ... it was my purpose to bring forth
through music a world-wide revival that would usher In the move of my spirit in
bringing men and women to Christ.' And I want to tell you those four lads
aborted something. They took what did not belong to them and used it in a way
that was not intended by God to be used. It did bring a revival of music - but
it brought it on the other side of the fence ... And the Lord spoke to me and He
said, 'in 1970 1 lifted that anointing off of them. And it has been held in my
hand ever since.” This is the type of nonsense that was found in the
Toronto revival.

A sign is something people see or hear to understand a message, it is for
those who have spiritual understanding and it is not cryptic that we need a
kabbalistic prophet to present it. Even the Pharisees understood some of the
parables were about them.

For more of Addison's new ways we turn to some of the many prophetic messages
given.

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